当地著名的19世纪建筑天主教堂，坐落在房屋风格朴素无华但丰富多元的区域，高塔昂首挺立于一片幽静的红砖木结构住宅之上。

The Mission Church, as the 19th-century building is locally known, towers over modest red-brick and wood-frame houses in a district that is as unpretentious as it is diverse.

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尽管是有记录以来最严重的地震，但大多数主要建筑物仍完整挺立(除了填海土地上的建筑物外)，这说明这些建筑都达到了很高的技术标准。

Most major buildings stood up very well (except those on reclaimed land) in spite of the record quake, attesting to the high technical standards of those buildings.

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